Governance, Risk & Compliance Consultant

Job description

Introduction
Promontory Financial Group (a business unit of IBM Consulting) is the premier consulting firm for financial services companies worldwide.
Promontory Financial Group excels at helping clients resolve critical issues, particularly those with a regulatory dimension. Promontory professionals have unparalleled regulatory experience and insight, and provide our clients with frank, proactive advice informed by best practices and regulatory expectations.

As a GRC Consultant at Promontory Financial Group, you will help reinvent businesses and industries by developing and utilising specialised knowledge of industry-specific competitive strategies. You'll manage complex components of an engagement, working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a member of the Promontory Australasia team at IBM you will contribute to the firm's global efforts to provide clients with solutions to challenging strategic, risk management, and regulatory compliance issues. Our growing team of specialists offer the following services across Governance, Risk & Compliance:
·  Remediation Services – Independent assurance to regulators and firms over remediation programs
·  Compliance and Risk Management Advisory – Advice on risk governance and management policies and procedures
·  Regulatory Framework Advisory – Advising regulators on building regulatory frameworks
·  Regulatory Liaison Advisory – Helping our clients navigate relationships with Regulators You will work with a multi-disciplinary team helping banks, wealth management businesses and other financial institutions including Regulators solve regulatory and compliance problems, design or restructure operational processes to better manage and mitigate non-financial risk, leveraging technology to improve effectiveness and compliance with regulatory obligations.

You will work closely with Directors and Managing Directors and, applying your regulatory and industry knowledge and experience, work on projects ensuring project deliverables meet the high standards our clients have grown to expect. You will be responsible for managing engagements on a day-to-day basis, analysing complex problems, developing recommendations to address client issues and drafting reports and other deliverables.

You're someone who wants to carve out your career as a trusted advisor and problem solver for the financial services sector. You want to be recognised as a GRC specialist and learn from our highly regarded industry experts.

Roles and Responsibilities
As a team member you will demonstrate your ability to:
·  Contribute to projects on a day-to-day basis to ensure delivery to schedule and budget.
·  Assist the senior engagement staff member in managing client interactions, day-to-day activities, and prioritisation of project tasks.
·  Work autonomously, undertaking analysis as directed and taking responsibility for the preparation of project deliverables, including reports and presentations.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  An undergraduate degree in either Accounting, Commerce, Finance, or Law - with postgraduate qualifications highly regarded.
·  Minimum 3 years’ experience in non financial risk management, regulatory relations, or governance, risk & compliance roles - from Consulting firms, Financial Services organisations or relevant Regulators.
·  Demonstrated experience working collaboratively within project teams to address complex issues in high pressure situations.
·  Strong written communication skills with, the ability to construct well-founded, clear, and concise analyses and recommendations.
·  Strong attention to detail
·  Track record working in a fast-paced and unstructured environment.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  A good understanding of Australia’s system of financial regulation which applies to our client base and an understanding of the businesses in which our clients operate.
·  Ability to work effectively as a member of the engagement team on day-to-day aspects of engagement activities and an ability to work with clients.
·  Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships within teams.
·  Strong analytical skills.
·  Strong oral skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, simply and logically.
·  Developing ability to handle complex information, solve problems, and manage multiple tasks.
·  Ability to work closely with, to establish and maintain positive working relationships and communicate effectively with clients.
·  Strong commitment to integrity and ethics.